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Founded in 1957 by Professor Germaine Brée, La Maison Française occupies a 19th-century carriage house on historic Washington Mews. [ 1] Inside, the ground floor salon is an intimate and versatile space with seating for up to one hundred. Located on the second floor, the Tom Bishop Reading Room honors La Maison Française of NYU's longtime ...
La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin ( French for "The Robert-Houdin House of Magic ") is a museum which faces the Royal Château de Blois. It is located in the Loir-et-Cher département in the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois. [1] As a museum of France and bearing the official label of "Musée de France", it is the ...
In 1977, pastry chef Robert Linxe opened the first La Maison du Chocolat in Paris. Linxe was trained as a chocolatier in Bayonne, France and Switzerland. He later opened three more boutiques within Paris in 1987–1989, with a boutique in New York City opening in 1990. In 1995, Geoffroy d’Anglejan was named general manager of La Maison du ...
The Maison d'Éducation de la Légion d'Honneur at Saint-Denis. The maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur are the French secondary schools set up by Napoleon and originally meant for the education of girls whose father, grandfather or great-grandfather had been awarded the Légion d'honneur. Access is still by hereditary right.
The Maison de Verre ( French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of ...
Madeleine Chapsal was born in Paris on 1 September 1925. She married the French journalist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber [2] in 1947 with whom she participated in the creation of the news magazine L'Express. She was a member of the Prix Femina jury between 1981 and 2006. Chapsal died in the night of 11 to 12 March 2024, at the ...
Website. simons .ca. La Maison Simons ( colloquially Simons) is a Canadian department store chain founded in 1840 by Richard and Peter Simons. The business was established by the son of a Scottish immigrant to Quebec as a dry goods store. In the 1960s, the focus of the business changed to a department store, incorporating youth-oriented brands.
Plaza de San Francisco. Plaza de San Francisco (Saint Francis Square) may refer to: Plaza San Francisco, La Paz, Bolivia. Plaza de San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador. Plaza de San Francisco, Seville, Spain. Plaza de San Francisco de Asís, Havana, Cuba.